TOKYO 2020

The legacy of the man Minister for Sport Shane Ross described as running the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) like a “fiefdom” is reaching even further and wider than imagined. Former OCI president Pat Hickey’s arrangement with the THG/Pro10 ticket resale companies, rejected as credible entities by the Rio games …

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After their unfortunate experience with the selection of a logo, the organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Games have solicited designs for a Games mascot with understandable caution. The initial logo design by Kenjiro Sano had to be scrapped due to allegations of plagiarism, after Belgian Olivier Debie claimed that it …

The Summer Olympics will be making their way to Japan in 2020 – and they might be inspiring a rather unique celebration along the way. Yoshiro Mori, former Japanese Prime Minister and the chairman of The Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, recently revealed his early ideas …

Members of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee have joined a traditional summer o-bon dance festival in Iwaki City in Fukushima. The festival featured the new dance routine created for the revamped version of the Tokyo Gorin Ondo song, the first time it has been performed in …

Last updated 07:24, August 16 2017 The 2020 Tokyo Olympics song Gorin Ondo performed in Tokyo. A total of 2042 mascot designs have been received for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after a competition launched earlier this month invited Japanese residents to submit their proposals. According to the Tokyo 2020 organising committee, …

By: Reuters | Published:August 15, 2017 4:52 pm There were 1,774 individual submissions and 268 group submissions. (Source: AP) A total of 2,042 mascot designs have been received for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after a competition launched earlier this month invited Japanese residents to submit their proposals, Games organisers said …

(Reuters) – A total of 2,042 mascot designs have been received for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after a competition launched earlier this month invited Japanese residents to submit their proposals, Games organizers said on Tuesday. According to the Tokyo 2020 organizing committee, a quarter of the total applicants were in …

The competition to design the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic mascots has received 2,042 entries, organisers have announced. There were 1,774 designs from individuals and 268 group entries, with a deadline to enter passing yesterday after the process opened on August 2. Members of the Tokyo 2020 mascot review panel …

Tokyo 2020 has announced two new appointments in its Communications and Engagement Bureau. Maki Kobayashi, currently the director of European policy dvision at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has joined as the new executive director of communications and engagement. In addition Masa Takaya, the current Director of Communications, has been …